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Chicago examiner vol xv no 50 a m price five cents c * * sunday sunday chcago june 13 1915 decide on strike or peace to-day carmen's ultimatum up at noon roads balk on arbitration terms 1,400,01 as raise phi demanded corporations say they can't an swer note until to-iylorrow j unions debate time extension an exchange of notes last night be i tween the street railway employes and the officials fo the companies over the questions of wage increase and working conditions and an ap peal of mayor thompson may post pone action on a strike until alter | monday the question of a strike or ' further parleys looking to peace through arbitration will be definitely settled at a meeting of the union of ficers at 11 o'clock to-day after conferences with mayor thompson during the day the offi cers of the local unions acting with w d mahon the international pres j ident drew up a statement of condi tions under which they would take i their grievances to arbitration this ; was handed to mayor thompson and i by him submitted to presidents bus 1 by and budd of the surface and ele 1 vated lines and chairman blair of i the board of operation of both com j panics it was m the nature of an j ultimatum and its time limit was i set for noon to-day the propositions made by the men were considered for several hours by the railway officials then they drew i a note declining to meet the demands \ of the men but asking a brief delay i to enable them to submit the condi 1 tions imposed to the board of opera j tions with the hope that a basis for i arbitration might be reached reply of officials the reply of the officials to the de mands precedent to arbitration of the men follows the so-called mlan of arbitra tion submitted by the men re quires the companies to agree m advance of arbitration to certain demands of the men one of these demands is that the existing five year scale be reduced to two years this single demand which we are asked to agree to m ad vance of arbitration would involve m itself a wage increase m the two years of the proposed contract of more than 1,000,000 another provision to which our assent is demanded m advance is \ that 50 per cent of all runs be | straight runs and 50 per cent be | completed in fourteen consecutive j hours the men also demand a i minimum of nine hours pay these i provisions taken together would i involve a payment of bonus time during the two years of the con ! tract of not less than 400,000 more j there are several other demands i of a similar nature which will op erate as wage increases in other j words we are required to agree m advance to give a wage increase during the two years of lite con tract of over 1,400,000 before we j are even permitted to select one of the five arbitrators chosen by the men mex declimsd advances in the last communication sent j us by thc men on june 10 they de clined our proposition to arbi trate on any fair basis and then ln response to our question who is to determine what is a fair imposition after the parties have lied m the course of their nego ations to agree the men an rered our answer is that we ust remain the judges of what institutes a fair proposition con rning wages the position taken by the men m eir letter of june 10 was m ef ct that they proposed to fix the ge scale themselves without ftttog the companies aimaaj^ba^h arbitration terms as drawn by the carmen the following statement of conditions under which the street railway employes agree to go to arbitration were submitted to the officials of the street railway companies last night the conditions were not met and the officials of the railway compa nies sent a formal reply m which they stated that the demands of the men would have to be submitted to the board of operation which could not be brought together before 10 o'clock monday morning honorable william hale thompson mayor 1 lonorable and dear sir : the committee having m charge the matters between the companies and the association as a last effort to effect a settlement but having m mind its past arbitration with the surface lines and therefore being eager to safeguard the arbitration m such a way as to secure an impartial result hereby offers the inclosed proposal for arbitration and asks you to secure to the same the consent of the com panies concerned or a refusal thereof by twelve o'clock noon ( 12:00 m sunday june 13th 191 5 respectfully yours william quinlan john [. bruci william taber v s m'clenathan points and plans of arbitration between Chicago surface lines and division no 2^l of the amalgamated association of street and electric railway employes of america first â€” conditional to arbi tration mutual agreement that : / \ runs arranged so that voy fifty per cent 50 be straight runs and fifty pert cent 50t c ) be completed within fourteen 14 consecutive hours i \ graded wage scale limited aj j so as not to exceed two 2 years maximum wage paid at the expiration of that time (\ night platform service *->/ completed within eight 8 consecutive hours / j period of contract two 2 j years ending may 31st 1917 and findings effective as of june ist 1915 (\ no run shall be less than *>/ nine 9 hours or over eleven 11 hours and no run shall pay less than nine 9 hours pay except sunday second â€” questions to be arbitrated : ( \ how much if any raise cx above the present wage shall be paid all employes mem bers of the association i \ all other points m dispute \*-'/ raised m the proposed contract that cannot be settled before arbitration takes place third â€” subject matter to be covered upon question of ability of the company to pay and justice of the demands of the men : (^\ actual money investment Â£*/ of the properties of the surface lines and returns on such actual investment j-v \ salaries and considera \Â»-'/ tions paid general offi cers of the company and com parison with like salaries paid like officers m like corporations also comparison between in crease m such officers salaries since the 1907 ordinances and increase m wages paid employes / _ \ nature and effect of con j tracts by surface lines and constituent companies m re gard to operation and the charges thereon and comparison of such contracts with like con tracts m other cities / j use of all books docu \*-*/ ments and vouchers whether private or otherwise of the company to determine its ability to meet the demands of the men and profits actually earned and dividends to stock holders (\ relationship and extent of salaries and expenses of board of supervising engi neers fourth â€” plan of arbitra tion each party within twenty four 24 hours select a member of the arbitration board the two 2 thus chosen within forty-eight 48 hours select a third 3d one who will serve from the following five 5 named representative citizens governor edward f dunne judge marcus kava nagh carter h harrison ex mayor of Chicago judge william e dever judge john p m'goorty board to be convened without delay : hearings daily except sun day award within ten 10 days after close of hearing and argu ments award binding upon both parties when signed by majority of the arbitrators rulings bind ing upon both parties if made by majority of the arbitrators fifth â€” the same arbitration board above selected and chosen shall serve m the same manner with respect to the dispute between the elevated company and the association the arbitration to be as to wages and conditions upward of the present rate the period of contract shall be the same as between the sur face lines and the association and findings to date back m the same way the subject matter to he covered upon questions of ability to pay and justice of the demands to be the same as sections b c and d of the surface lines proposition under such section and the fol lowing the arbitrators shall consider as to the actual investment m the properties of the elevated railroads an amount not to exceed the amount determined by the valuation commission of the city council in their report submitted to the city council a the conditions preceding the arbitration shall be along the sine general lines as those prescribed with reference to the sur fgle lines and the period for maximum pay shall be as specified h p r p sd contract and conditioned further upon the provision at if either the surface lines or the elevated railroads shall not jjen^^e^ajitoauon as herein outlined that the association with equitable life control bought by gen du pont morgan interests m assurance society sold for 3,500 000 it is said by international rew service new york june 12 â€” control of the equitable life assurance soci ety of the united states has passed from the hands of the estate of the late j p morgan to general t coleman dupont the price paid for the morgan interests m the equitable is being withheld but it is understood it was about 3 500,000 the announcement of the trans fer of stock was made to-night by william a day president of the equitable life assurance society it was said the new owner has formulated and will carry out plans for complete mutualization general dupont obtains the equitable assets computed as be ing over 550,000,000 the price paid is said to be about 1,000,000 more than j p morgan paid thomas f ryan m 1909 for the stock morgan paid 5,000 a share modjeska dismisses suit for a decree ralph modjeska son of the lata noted actress and a widely known en gineer yesterday dismissed his suit m portland ore for a divorce from mme felicie modjeski now living at 2017 prairie avenue reasons for dismissing the action were not given the wife last evening admitted the dismissal but referred all questions to her attorney henry guerln guerin said the testimony for the madame was taken several months ago m Chicago and sent to modjes ka's attorneys m portland mme modjeski declined to say whether she again expected to live with mod jeska girl struck by auto dies in ambulance helen lsenberg sixteen years old 5247 indiana avenue was run down and fatally injured by an automobile m washington park at fifty-sixth street last night miss lsenberg at tempted to cross from one side of the park road to the other and ap parently became confused she had barely got out of the way of one machine when the other struck her she died m an ambulance which was taking her to the washington park hospital the driver of the car f c mcgrew was arrested prof a s kingsford denies wrongdoing professor a s kingsford super intendent of the west aurora schools accused two weeks ago of annoying he wives of two prominent men at a public gathering at sylvandel last night made his first public statement bitterly denying any wrongdoing he says he was caught m the crowd at the meeting and after the crush had passed a policeman approached and the so-called arrest was made the weather Chicago asid vicinity unsettled but generally fair to day and to-morrow somewhat cooler by to-night freÂ»!i south west to west winds yesterday's temperatures highest sl lowest 56 average 7 italy has stabbed ally in back austria's reply to the green book berlin receives american note with hope last word in reply to be kaiser's conciliatory tone of document j evokes responsive attitude in j germany compromise is seen berlin june 12 the second ' american note was placed in the hands of the kaiser early to-day and its text was published in the after noon papers the complete text j cleared the wires from berlin last i night and was rushed to the em j peror's headquarters at the galiciani i battle front taking precedence over all dispatches at the kaiser's per sonal request definite statements as to the atti i tude of the german government with | i respect to the note are not yet avail ! ' able but in circles which represent the sentiment of responsible quarters the note seems to have made a dis tinctly favorable impression the i note is believed to offer the possl-j bility of negotiations on which a sat 1 isfactory settlement might be ! reached the conciliatory tojfce of the note apparently has evokeu a responsive attitude here individuals who earlier were stubborn now are willing to talk of compromises in which the compromise would not be all on one side final word with kaisek the official viewpoint can proba bly be appraised correctly only after conferences of the imperial chancel lor dr von bethmann-hollweg the foreign secretary herr von jagow and representatives of the army and admiralty the naval and general staff but the einperor it in be lieved will n|ieak the final word it is understood these conferences will begin immediately the answer certainly will not be drafted and the lines of the german policy probably will not be decided upon definitely before dr anton meyer gerhard spe cial envoy of ambassador von bern storff has arrived and made his re port both the lokal auzeigrer and the vonsiholie zeltung hail the second americaii note as opening the way for further negotiations between ger many and the united statea which both profess to believe will straighten out the situation these papers ad mit the note contains little that is rejected guaranties of cessions j red book quotes letters and documents charging treachery to partner in triple alliance following is the austrian red book printed exclusive ly to-day in the Chicago ex aminer it is in reply to the italian green book also j printed exclusively by the \ examiner on may 21 : the hague june t2.â€”the aus trian red booh in reply to italy's green book which gave the cvuet leading up to the declaration of war by the government of kivij victor has been translated and leus ?Â»"

Chicago examiner vol xv no 50 a m price five cents c * * sunday sunday chcago june 13 1915 decide on strike or peace to-day carmen's ultimatum up at noon roads balk on arbitration terms 1,400,01 as raise phi demanded corporations say they can't an swer note until to-iylorrow j unions debate time extension an exchange of notes last night be i tween the street railway employes and the officials fo the companies over the questions of wage increase and working conditions and an ap peal of mayor thompson may post pone action on a strike until alter | monday the question of a strike or ' further parleys looking to peace through arbitration will be definitely settled at a meeting of the union of ficers at 11 o'clock to-day after conferences with mayor thompson during the day the offi cers of the local unions acting with w d mahon the international pres j ident drew up a statement of condi tions under which they would take i their grievances to arbitration this ; was handed to mayor thompson and i by him submitted to presidents bus 1 by and budd of the surface and ele 1 vated lines and chairman blair of i the board of operation of both com j panics it was m the nature of an j ultimatum and its time limit was i set for noon to-day the propositions made by the men were considered for several hours by the railway officials then they drew i a note declining to meet the demands \ of the men but asking a brief delay i to enable them to submit the condi 1 tions imposed to the board of opera j tions with the hope that a basis for i arbitration might be reached reply of officials the reply of the officials to the de mands precedent to arbitration of the men follows the so-called mlan of arbitra tion submitted by the men re quires the companies to agree m advance of arbitration to certain demands of the men one of these demands is that the existing five year scale be reduced to two years this single demand which we are asked to agree to m ad vance of arbitration would involve m itself a wage increase m the two years of the proposed contract of more than 1,000,000 another provision to which our assent is demanded m advance is \ that 50 per cent of all runs be | straight runs and 50 per cent be | completed in fourteen consecutive j hours the men also demand a i minimum of nine hours pay these i provisions taken together would i involve a payment of bonus time during the two years of the con ! tract of not less than 400,000 more j there are several other demands i of a similar nature which will op erate as wage increases in other j words we are required to agree m advance to give a wage increase during the two years of lite con tract of over 1,400,000 before we j are even permitted to select one of the five arbitrators chosen by the men mex declimsd advances in the last communication sent j us by thc men on june 10 they de clined our proposition to arbi trate on any fair basis and then ln response to our question who is to determine what is a fair imposition after the parties have lied m the course of their nego ations to agree the men an rered our answer is that we ust remain the judges of what institutes a fair proposition con rning wages the position taken by the men m eir letter of june 10 was m ef ct that they proposed to fix the ge scale themselves without ftttog the companies aimaaj^ba^h arbitration terms as drawn by the carmen the following statement of conditions under which the street railway employes agree to go to arbitration were submitted to the officials of the street railway companies last night the conditions were not met and the officials of the railway compa nies sent a formal reply m which they stated that the demands of the men would have to be submitted to the board of operation which could not be brought together before 10 o'clock monday morning honorable william hale thompson mayor 1 lonorable and dear sir : the committee having m charge the matters between the companies and the association as a last effort to effect a settlement but having m mind its past arbitration with the surface lines and therefore being eager to safeguard the arbitration m such a way as to secure an impartial result hereby offers the inclosed proposal for arbitration and asks you to secure to the same the consent of the com panies concerned or a refusal thereof by twelve o'clock noon ( 12:00 m sunday june 13th 191 5 respectfully yours william quinlan john [. bruci william taber v s m'clenathan points and plans of arbitration between Chicago surface lines and division no 2^l of the amalgamated association of street and electric railway employes of america first â€” conditional to arbi tration mutual agreement that : / \ runs arranged so that voy fifty per cent 50 be straight runs and fifty pert cent 50t c ) be completed within fourteen 14 consecutive hours i \ graded wage scale limited aj j so as not to exceed two 2 years maximum wage paid at the expiration of that time (\ night platform service *->/ completed within eight 8 consecutive hours / j period of contract two 2 j years ending may 31st 1917 and findings effective as of june ist 1915 (\ no run shall be less than *>/ nine 9 hours or over eleven 11 hours and no run shall pay less than nine 9 hours pay except sunday second â€” questions to be arbitrated : ( \ how much if any raise cx above the present wage shall be paid all employes mem bers of the association i \ all other points m dispute \*-'/ raised m the proposed contract that cannot be settled before arbitration takes place third â€” subject matter to be covered upon question of ability of the company to pay and justice of the demands of the men : (^\ actual money investment Â£*/ of the properties of the surface lines and returns on such actual investment j-v \ salaries and considera \Â»-'/ tions paid general offi cers of the company and com parison with like salaries paid like officers m like corporations also comparison between in crease m such officers salaries since the 1907 ordinances and increase m wages paid employes / _ \ nature and effect of con j tracts by surface lines and constituent companies m re gard to operation and the charges thereon and comparison of such contracts with like con tracts m other cities / j use of all books docu \*-*/ ments and vouchers whether private or otherwise of the company to determine its ability to meet the demands of the men and profits actually earned and dividends to stock holders (\ relationship and extent of salaries and expenses of board of supervising engi neers fourth â€” plan of arbitra tion each party within twenty four 24 hours select a member of the arbitration board the two 2 thus chosen within forty-eight 48 hours select a third 3d one who will serve from the following five 5 named representative citizens governor edward f dunne judge marcus kava nagh carter h harrison ex mayor of Chicago judge william e dever judge john p m'goorty board to be convened without delay : hearings daily except sun day award within ten 10 days after close of hearing and argu ments award binding upon both parties when signed by majority of the arbitrators rulings bind ing upon both parties if made by majority of the arbitrators fifth â€” the same arbitration board above selected and chosen shall serve m the same manner with respect to the dispute between the elevated company and the association the arbitration to be as to wages and conditions upward of the present rate the period of contract shall be the same as between the sur face lines and the association and findings to date back m the same way the subject matter to he covered upon questions of ability to pay and justice of the demands to be the same as sections b c and d of the surface lines proposition under such section and the fol lowing the arbitrators shall consider as to the actual investment m the properties of the elevated railroads an amount not to exceed the amount determined by the valuation commission of the city council in their report submitted to the city council a the conditions preceding the arbitration shall be along the sine general lines as those prescribed with reference to the sur fgle lines and the period for maximum pay shall be as specified h p r p sd contract and conditioned further upon the provision at if either the surface lines or the elevated railroads shall not jjen^^e^ajitoauon as herein outlined that the association with equitable life control bought by gen du pont morgan interests m assurance society sold for 3,500 000 it is said by international rew service new york june 12 â€” control of the equitable life assurance soci ety of the united states has passed from the hands of the estate of the late j p morgan to general t coleman dupont the price paid for the morgan interests m the equitable is being withheld but it is understood it was about 3 500,000 the announcement of the trans fer of stock was made to-night by william a day president of the equitable life assurance society it was said the new owner has formulated and will carry out plans for complete mutualization general dupont obtains the equitable assets computed as be ing over 550,000,000 the price paid is said to be about 1,000,000 more than j p morgan paid thomas f ryan m 1909 for the stock morgan paid 5,000 a share modjeska dismisses suit for a decree ralph modjeska son of the lata noted actress and a widely known en gineer yesterday dismissed his suit m portland ore for a divorce from mme felicie modjeski now living at 2017 prairie avenue reasons for dismissing the action were not given the wife last evening admitted the dismissal but referred all questions to her attorney henry guerln guerin said the testimony for the madame was taken several months ago m Chicago and sent to modjes ka's attorneys m portland mme modjeski declined to say whether she again expected to live with mod jeska girl struck by auto dies in ambulance helen lsenberg sixteen years old 5247 indiana avenue was run down and fatally injured by an automobile m washington park at fifty-sixth street last night miss lsenberg at tempted to cross from one side of the park road to the other and ap parently became confused she had barely got out of the way of one machine when the other struck her she died m an ambulance which was taking her to the washington park hospital the driver of the car f c mcgrew was arrested prof a s kingsford denies wrongdoing professor a s kingsford super intendent of the west aurora schools accused two weeks ago of annoying he wives of two prominent men at a public gathering at sylvandel last night made his first public statement bitterly denying any wrongdoing he says he was caught m the crowd at the meeting and after the crush had passed a policeman approached and the so-called arrest was made the weather Chicago asid vicinity unsettled but generally fair to day and to-morrow somewhat cooler by to-night freÂ»!i south west to west winds yesterday's temperatures highest sl lowest 56 average 7 italy has stabbed ally in back austria's reply to the green book berlin receives american note with hope last word in reply to be kaiser's conciliatory tone of document j evokes responsive attitude in j germany compromise is seen berlin june 12 the second ' american note was placed in the hands of the kaiser early to-day and its text was published in the after noon papers the complete text j cleared the wires from berlin last i night and was rushed to the em j peror's headquarters at the galiciani i battle front taking precedence over all dispatches at the kaiser's per sonal request definite statements as to the atti i tude of the german government with | i respect to the note are not yet avail ! ' able but in circles which represent the sentiment of responsible quarters the note seems to have made a dis tinctly favorable impression the i note is believed to offer the possl-j bility of negotiations on which a sat 1 isfactory settlement might be ! reached the conciliatory tojfce of the note apparently has evokeu a responsive attitude here individuals who earlier were stubborn now are willing to talk of compromises in which the compromise would not be all on one side final word with kaisek the official viewpoint can proba bly be appraised correctly only after conferences of the imperial chancel lor dr von bethmann-hollweg the foreign secretary herr von jagow and representatives of the army and admiralty the naval and general staff but the einperor it in be lieved will n|ieak the final word it is understood these conferences will begin immediately the answer certainly will not be drafted and the lines of the german policy probably will not be decided upon definitely before dr anton meyer gerhard spe cial envoy of ambassador von bern storff has arrived and made his re port both the lokal auzeigrer and the vonsiholie zeltung hail the second americaii note as opening the way for further negotiations between ger many and the united statea which both profess to believe will straighten out the situation these papers ad mit the note contains little that is rejected guaranties of cessions j red book quotes letters and documents charging treachery to partner in triple alliance following is the austrian red book printed exclusive ly to-day in the Chicago ex aminer it is in reply to the italian green book also j printed exclusively by the \ examiner on may 21 : the hague june t2.â€”the aus trian red booh in reply to italy's green book which gave the cvuet leading up to the declaration of war by the government of kivij victor has been translated and leus ?Â»"